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Speckle   Listen
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Speckle  n.  A little or spot in or anything, of a different substance or color from that of the thing itself. "An huge great serpent, all with speckles pied."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Speckle" Quotes from Famous Books



... large speckle guts 4 Duck in Malade Small ducks the flavour of which much resembles the Canvis back no timber of any kind on the river, we Saw in the last Lodges acorns of the white oake which the Inds. inform they precure above the falls The men are badly dressed, Some ...
— The Journals of Lewis and Clark • Meriwether Lewis et al

... and steep than those on the right. The glen is very narrow throughout—a circumstance which adds to its wildness; and which, in gloomy weather, imparts to the spot a truly savage aspect. Masses of debris and fallen rocks line the base of the precipices, or speckle the sides of the mountains in places where the slopes, being less precipitous than elsewhere, have served to check the fallen matter; and the whole surface of the narrow vale is dotted with rocks of various sizes, which have bounded from ...
— Freaks on the Fells - Three Months' Rustication • R.M. Ballantyne



Words linked to "Speckle" :   nebula, mock sun, blob, facula, pinpoint, sunspot, fleck, worn spot, blot, spot, mottle, maculation, stipple, dapple, marking, plaque, macula, splash, cloud, patch, speck, sundog, bespeckle, parhelion, fret, macule



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